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WHAT DOES DESEXUALIZATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of desexualization in the English dictionary

The definition of desexualization in the dictionary is the removal of the sexual characteristics of something. Other definition of desexualization is depriving of sexual characteristics by the surgical removal of the testicles or ovaries; castrate or spay.

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DESEXUALIZATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about desexualization

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESEXUALIZATION»

Discover the use of desexualization in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to desexualization and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

1

Desexualization in American Life

Originally published as The New People, this classic volume examines the great changes in popular culture that unfolded in the 1960s with major steps toward political, racial, gender, and social empowerment.

Charles Winick

2

Papers on Psychoanalysis

Freud speaks of desexualization very graphically: "When the ego assumes the
features of the object (by identification), it forces itself, so to speak, upon the id as
a love object and tries to make good the loss of that object by saying: 'look, I am ...

Hans W. Loewald, 1989

3

Freud's Concept of Repression and Defense: Its Theoretical ...

Every such identification is in the nature of a desexualization or even of a
sublimation." (1923, p. 80.) These quotations leave unclear the exact relationship
between desexualization and sublimation. A later passage from 1924, which is ...

Madison, 1999

4

Cultivating Freud's Garden in France

One of its aspects is desexualization. Braunschweig and Fain do not refer to it in
a more systematic way, and when the term comes up, it is in the context of the
pathology of the totally desexualized personality organization of patients
suffering ...

Marion Michel Oliner, 1988

5

The Problem of Perversion: The View from Self Psychology

Sexualization. and. Desexualization. It is a paradox that psychoanalysis, which
has so often been considered as founded on the recognition of sexuality, should
itself struggle to make clear the concept of sexualization that at its simplest ...

Arnold Goldberg, 1995

6

Freud and Philosophy : 'An Essay on Interpretation

We have, therefore, a continuous three-term sequence: desexualization,
identification, sublimation. At this point, we have moved away from our initial
basis: sublimation is no longer seen as a perverse infantile component that has
deviated ...

Paul Ricoeur, 2008

7

On the Early Development of Mind

Secondly, observation of the phenomena of transitory sublimations in normal
states and of their regression or mobility in pathological states is a useful
preliminary to study of processes such as 'desexualization'. The mobility supports
the idea ...

Edward Glover, 2009

8

Different Sexual Worlds: Contemporary Case Studies of Sexuality

Herbert Marcuse, in Eros and Civilization (1974), describes how civilization
requires the sublimation of sexual expression and virtually insists on the
desexualization of modern man. According to Marcuse, this desexuali- zation or
repression of ...

Dick Skeen, 1999

9

The First Freudians

21 Along with this goes a desexualization of the impulses, a kind of sublimation,
and this important process gives rise to interesting problems. Freud hints that it is
due to the giving up of sexual aims implied in the change from allo-erotic into ...

Hendrik M. Ruitenbeek, 1977

10

The Blind Man Sees: Freud's Awakening and Other Essays

Identification occurs concurrently with a desexualization or sublimation, and it
takes place after the erotic component no longer has power to bind the
destructiveness that was combined with it. The destructiveness defuses into the
superego ...

Neville Symington, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESEXUALIZATION»

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Sexual Liberation Is for White Women, According to 'Orange Is the …

The portrayal of mammies cannot be ignored because the desexualization of Black women and their apparent undying loyalty to the ... «RH Reality Check, Jul 15»

2

Keenan-Bolger and Sullivan's Birds & the Bees: Unabridged Will …

... the desexualization of aging women, today's "hook-up" culture, and sexual health. The show played a run at University Settlement last year. «TheaterMania.com, Jun 15»

3

Is the 'Panic' Over Sexting Really Warranted?

Although Hasinoff concedes that the ACLU was sympathetic to the teens, the lawyers' exclusive focus “on desexualization and innocence—that ... «RH Reality Check, May 15»

4

How 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt' Is Subverting the Gay Best …

Hollywood planted seeds that suggested that effeminacy was akin to gay irrelevance, to desexualization. After it was clear that the “gay best ... «Flavorwire, Mar 15»

5

Dear Men, Stop Telling Me 'Real Women Have Curves'

... Ideal" of female appearance, it was about what that ideal symbolizes: asceticism, perfect, unobtrusive femininity, and yes, desexualization. «Huffington Post, Mar 15»

6

Dear Men: My Eating Disorder Was Never About You, So Stop …

... Ideal” of female appearance, it was about what that ideal symbolizes: asceticism, perfect, unobtrusive femininity, and yes, desexualization. «Bustle, Feb 15»

7

TCA Winter 2015: Quick Takes From Fox's TCA Presentation

Hard to imagine that “Sleepy Hollow” can recover from the desexualization of Ichabod Crane, who was such a romantic hero in Season 1. «Seat42F, Jan 15»

8

Pop culture helps change minds on gay rights

“There are people on the gay left who deeply regret the trend toward assimilation and desexualization,” said Paul Robinson, an emeritus ... «The Seattle Times, Jan 15»